The Wall Street Journal 2009 Technology Innovation Awards

Serena Chan

G. Pascal Zachary is a senior writer for The Wall Street Journal. He is also a contributing editor of the newsmagazine In These Times and a columnist for Technology Review. His first technology-related book Showstopper (1994) focused on innovation at Microsoft. His second book, Endless Frontier: Vannevar Bush, Engineer of the American Century, follows the life and career of a highly controversi...

Prizes for innovation of new medicines and vaccines.

This article argues that prizes can help stimulate medical innovation, control costs and ensure greater access to new medicines and vaccines. The authors explore four increasingly ambitious prize options to reward medical innovation, each addressing flaws in the current patent system. The first option promotes innovation through a large prize fund linked to the impact on health outcomes; the se...

An Innovation in Film Cooling of the Gas Turbine Blades Applying an Upstream Jet

A new design concept is introduced to control the near-wall integration between the hot-gas boundary layer and the cooling jets in order to enhance the adiabatic film cooling effectiveness of the gas turbine blades. In this new approach, another film cooling port, having a very low blowing ratio, which prevents formation of the counter-rotating vortex pare, is applied just upstream of the main ...

New Approaches to Innovation: Do Smart Cities Produce Smart Entrepreneurs?

Living Labs aim to engage in user-centered design practices where users are included in their daily life environment as innovative agents. However, empirical insights in end user engagement in Living Lab practices are currently lacking. This article focuses on opening up this black box of user engagement by analyzing the involvement of a group of entrepreneurs in a Living Lab smart city pilot i...

Anna Vander Wall